Family reunions

Forty people, forty cameras, one book

A reunion produces hundreds of photos spread across every phone that was there, and nobody ever puts them together. Send one link: each household adds their own, and it comes back as a finished book.

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The reunion ends and the photos scatter

Someone always says they will collect everyone's pictures. Then there are twelve households, four group chats, a shared folder that half the family cannot open, and one cousin who has all the good photos and does not use email.

Letting each household upload their own solves it in one step. They add their photos at full quality and write their own captions — which matters, because only they can name everybody in their own shot, or explain why the kids are covered in mud.

Reunions are also the one occasion where the old material comes out. Someone brings the box of prints from the 1960s, and this is the year to scan a few pages of it into the same book as the photos from Saturday, before it goes back in a closet for another decade.

An extended family with children playing together at the edge of the water on a beach
Every household's photos in one book, captioned by whoever took them.
How it works

Set it up before the reunion, not after

People upload while they are still there or in the week after. A month later you will get nothing.

STEP 1

Create the project before you go

The family name, a cover photo, the reunion dates, and a deadline a couple of weeks out.

STEP 2

Put the link where the family already is

The reunion group chat, the email chain, a QR code on the table at dinner. No app, no accounts, nothing to explain twice.

STEP 3

Pages come in

Each household's photos are laid out into finished pages with their own captions. You review before anything is included.

STEP 4

Order a copy per household

One project, as many printed copies as the family wants. The PDF is free if you just want to send it round.

Why this works for a reunion

Reunions have the two things that break every group album: too many people, and too many photos from too many devices.

Twelve households, no chasing

Everyone uploads their own. You never receive a loose file, a compressed chat image, or a folder invitation nobody accepts.

18 layouts, chosen for you

Pages of four to nine images are arranged automatically, matched to what each household actually submitted.

The old prints come out too

Scans of photographs from decades ago are enhanced on upload, so 1968 sits on a facing page with this year without looking worse.

Captions name the right people

Written by whoever took the photo, which is the only person who can reliably name everyone in it.

The ones who could not come still get in

Anyone with the link can add a page from anywhere, including the branch of the family who missed it.

A copy for every household

One project, as many copies as the family orders, and everyone can chip in at $1.25 a page.

Prompts worth putting in the invitation

Ask for names and stories, not just photos, or you get a book nobody can decode in twenty years.

“Your best photo from the weekend, and who is in it.”
“How are you connected to the family? Say it plainly.”
“A photograph from a reunion years ago.”
“What did you learn about a relative you did not know before?”
“The moment from this reunion you will bring up at the next one.”
“Who was missed, and what would they have been doing?”
Pricing

Free to collect, and the group can cover the printing

Nothing is owed until you order a book, and gifts from contributors apply straight to the print cost.

$0

To start and collect

Create the project, invite everyone, and gather photos and stories for free. You only pay if you print.

$34.95

Printed hardcover, 20 pages

A 10-inch square matte hardcover with matte interior pages, plus shipping. Extra pages are $1.25 each.

$1.25

Per gifted page

Friends and family can chip in toward printing — each $1.25 covers one page of the finished book.

Questions

Family reunion photo book questions

When should we set it up?

Before the reunion, so the link can go on a table card or into the group chat while everyone is together. Contributions collapse once people are home and back at work.

Will the older relatives manage it?

There is nothing to install and no account to create — the link opens in a browser, and the form asks for photos, a name and a message. Anyone can also submit a page on someone else's behalf.

Can we include old family photographs?

Yes, and reunions are the best time to do it. Scans and phone photos of old prints are enhanced on upload, so they hold up next to this year's pictures.

Can every household get a copy?

Yes — additional copies of the same book can be ordered, which is what most families do. Gifted pages from contributors apply to the print cost.

What will it cost?

A hardcover is $34.95 for the first 20 pages, then $1.25 for each page after that, plus shipping. A fifty-page reunion book comes to about $72.45 per copy. The PDF is free.

Can we keep adding to it next time?

Start a new project for each reunion — it keeps each book about one gathering. Pages from a previous reunion can be added to the new one as history.

Related pages

Other occasions people build books for.

Get the photos before everyone drives home

Start the project, put the link on the table, and turn a weekend of camera rolls into one book per household.

Start a reunion book